We’re hiring. Not just apprentices.
Carpentry is one of the few trades where in the evening you can see what you started in the morning. We’ve been training apprentices for thirty years. Since the spring we’ve also had an empty bench, because one of our people retired. If you want to know whether this is for you, just come by and watch for a day.
Four positions, as of September
We only list what’s really open. If a line disappears, the position has been filled.
Journeyman joiner
A bench has been empty since the spring. We’re looking for someone who can finish a carcass without having to ask. Solid wood would be nice, veneer just as much. Never worked a CNC? Not a problem, everyone here learned it on the job.
There’s overtime when a kitchen has to go out. You get it paid or take it as time off, whichever you prefer.
Installer
Roughly two days in the workshop, three days out on site. Fitting kitchens, setting up wardrobes, hanging doors, sometimes just swapping a countertop. You don’t have to be a trained joiner. We’ve had good experiences with people from drywall and window fitting.
Apprenticeship as a joiner
One place, every year, even when work is tight. How the three years work with us is described further down. You’ll also find there what’s hard about the job.
Helper for installation days
When a big kitchen goes out, two of us aren’t enough. For that we’d like two or three people we can call at short notice. Carrying and handing things up, tidying up afterwards. Students from sixteen are fine too, just not on the machines.
What a joiner really does
Lots of people picture a workbench and glue. That’s part of it, but only a part. The job has changed, and it’s become more interesting.
Designing on the computer
Before a single board is cut, the piece takes shape on screen. You learn to think in three dimensions and turn an idea into a drawing a machine can mill parts from.
CNC and edge banding
Our machines get programmed, not just operated. Anyone who can do that quickly becomes someone the business can’t do without. We show you from your second year.
Working by hand
Dovetails, veneers, solid wood joints. What the machine can’t do, hands do. That’s the part you’re still proud of after twenty years.
On site with the customer
You ride along, carry, help install. And you get to see people’s faces when the kitchen is in. That’s the best part of the job.
Three years, clearly laid out
First year
The basics. Types of wood, tools, machine certificate, your first pieces of your own. You work on real jobs from the start, not just practice pieces. Vocational school in Musterdorf, in block teaching.
Second year
You take on your first tasks on your own. Introduction to the CNC, veneer work, surface finishing. From now on you regularly come along to installations.
Third year
Your journeyman piece. You plan and build a piece of furniture entirely on your own, from the design to the finish. We provide the material and machine time, the idea is yours.
Afterward
We keep on everyone who wants to stay. That’s not a nice phrase, it’s simple math. We can’t find qualified journeymen anymore. If you want to go to master craftsman school after your apprenticeship, we give you the time for it.
What’s not so nice about the job
We’d rather tell you now than after two months.
No cover letter. No CV.
We want to know who you are, not how well you can write. Name, e-mail, two sentences. You can attach certificates, but you don’t have to. Write to us at info@mustermann.de or fill this in.
A day in the workshop tells you more than any brochure.
You don’t need to sign up. Come by, watch, ask questions. Tuesday or Wednesday is best, that’s when we have time.